Funding Opportunities for Promoting AI Research Grant

Funding Opportunities for Promoting AI Research Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Artificial Intelligence Journal
Amount: Approximately US $80,000
Last Updated: January 22, 2026

Summary

The Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) offers funding opportunities to promote and disseminate AI research, with an annual budget of approximately $160,000. This funding is intended to support new activities that foster awareness, interaction, and diversity within the AI community. Proposals should focus on innovative approaches that contribute to AI research. Notably, AIJ prefers to fund organizations rather than individuals, and it aims to avoid duplication of existing projects.

Overview

The Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) is one of the longest established and most respected journals in AI, and since it was founded in 1970, it has published many of the key papers in the field. The operation of the Editorial Board is supported financially through an arrangement with AIJ’s publisher, Elsevier. Through this arrangement, the AIJ editorial board is able to make available substantial funds, (currently of the order of 160,000 USD per annum), to support the promotion and dissemination of AI research. Most of these funds are made available through a series of competitive open calls (the remaining part of the budget is reserved for sponsorship of studentships for the annual IJCAI conference). In providing this funding, AIJ aims to: promote & raise awareness of AI research & practiceencourage the timely and widespread dissemination of AI research results, techniques, and toolspromote interaction and exchange of ideas between AI researchers, practitioners, and studentsfoster diversity and inclusion in the AI community; promote the exploitation of AI research results, techniques, and tools We strongly encourage the submission of proposals for activities that are fundamentally new, and likely to lead to the establishment of a new direction for AI research. Up to 20% of the budget available for this call will be reserved to fund new activities.

Eligibility

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Ineligibility

We prefer not to fund individuals. Requests should come from organisations such as a foundation, charitable body, or the organising committee of an event. AIJ does not exclude the possibility of funding individuals, but this is likely to be exceptional. Note that AIJ will not support individual requests for travel funds or personal research grants.We prefer not to fund research projects. Research projects involving staffing costs would probably not, in our view, be a cost-effective use of the funds.We won’t fund duplicate activities. For example, if there is already an established, successful, and well regarded conference in the area of X, then in all likelihood we would not provide seed funds to set up a duplicate, competitor conference.We prefer not to fund activities where alternative sources of funding are readily available.AIJ will not fund activities that lead directly to profit for the organisation or individuals involved. However, we recognise that with some events (e.g., large conferences), it is necessary to budget for a surplus; in this case, proposals should describe what will happen to the surplus.